Winter Nights

Summary

Winter Nights

Calendar

Heathen

Date

Oct 11 Every year

Description

October/Hunting 11 Winter Nights - First Day of Winter in Old Calendar (Sacred to Freya and Ancestors) Winter Nights/Vetrablot: In the Old Icelandic Calendar, winter begins on the Satyrday between Hunting 11th and 17th. Winter Nights celebrates the bounty of the harvest and honors Freya and the fertility and protective spirits called Disir, that She leads (often the Disir are seen as our female ancestors). Give glory to Freya and pour a libation of ale, milk, or mead into the soil an offering to the Disir and the Earth itself. http://asatr u.org/Holidays.html